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Automatic Charges and Credits for Ascend-IP Users

Hann's On Software — Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Ascend-IP users can now greatly reduce entry of billing credits for medications. The new feature automatically reverses any charges following an order's discontinuance, or a patient's discharge. All of our ADT interfaces have also been updated with an option to automatically reverse charges following interface mediated discharges, virtually eliminating credits for scheduled medications when patients go home. One HOS client estimates this new feature is saving them 1-2 hours of time per day!

A second feature allows Ascend-IP to automate the generation of charges for scheduled medications. With this option turned "on", users don't have to tell the program how many scheduled doses to charge for...the program does it for them.

The HOS Charge interfaces can also be set to automatically transmit or process charges the day after the doses were administered. Pharmacy does not have to deal with complicated charge processing procedures, or "end-of-day" down time. Charge processing/transmission can be pre-scheduled to occur at the same time each day, automatically and unattended!

Two new interfaces: HBOC and Cerner

Hann's On Software — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

Hann's On Software has implemented two new interface interface for Ascend-IP, one with HBOC and another with Cerner's laboratory system. These interfaces add to the impressive list of vendors that Hann's On Software can interface with.

The HBOC interface is a "read-time" ADT interface for maintaining patient demographics, and a fully automated billing interface. The billing portion of the interface transmits pending charges to HBOC automatically each day, without user intervention!

The HOS Cerner interface automatically populates the Ascend-IP's "laboratory results" tables, with laboratory data created by Cerner. This provides pharmacists with timely access to laboratory results without their having to review the chart, or obtain paper reports from the laboratory.

New Ascend-HI Home Infusion

Hann's On Software — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Hann's On Software is releasing their most modern home infusion program yet, the Ascend-HI Home Infusion Software. The new program provides:

SQL Server database (ODBC). SQL Server and Ascend-HI are scalable to meet the needs of small to very large home infusion businesses. Other vendors keep promising, but we can deliver a SQL version now!
Stability Ascend-HI and SQL provide a level of safety you would expect to protect your valuable data. Don't put up with other vendor's bugs!
Long-term access to historical data. Ascend-HI and SQL provide most facilities with years of direct, on-line storage. With other systems, you may be forced to "archive" data on a regular basis, and reviewing their older patient records may be impractical!
Multi-facility support. Now two or more pharmacies (facilities, branch offices, etc.) can share one SQL database over a wide area network. Each location's patients, prescriptions, inventory, etc. are effectively separated from the others to maintain security and ensure patient confidentiality
A new user interface makes steps such as patient intake, order entry, distribution and claims processing, a breeze!
Ascend-HI helps you meet new HIPAA requirements.

HCFA "allowed billing unit" support

Hann's On Software — Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Ascend-IP can now automatically expand a medication charge into several smaller billable units. This need arose after HCFA required facilities to bill targeted drugs in specific, smaller, "billing units of measure".

For example, "DRUG-X" available in "50MG" vials might have to be billed in units of "10MG". Therefore, a "100MG" dose must be billed as 10 x "10MG" units. Until now, users had to edit the ingredient "quantity per dose" field to charge for the allowed unit of measure.

With the latest upgrade, Ascend-IP lets you display items in your formulary as they are commercially available (e.g., DRUG-X 50MG INJ). You can pre-set the "billing units" that the program should charge per dose (e.g., "5" billing units per "50MG" vial). At order time, you can edit the quantity per dose (e.g., from 1 to 2), or edit the dosage (e.g., from 50 to 100MG), as needed, and the program automatically charges the proper allowable billable units per dose (e.g., 10) .

This new feature eliminates the need to artificially inflate order quantities for target "HCFA drugs", and seamlessly handles charges for these items when they are received by our automated dispensing system interfaces.

This new feature is currently available to AIP outpatient clients, and will be available for inpatient users and charge interface users early next year.

New "Dosage" options for Ascend-IP

Hann's On Software — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Hann's On Software, Inc. has added several new "dosage" fields and capabilities to the Ascend-IP program. Several program features (and interfaces) take advantage of this new data when it is provided.

Previous versions of Ascend-IP extracted dosage information from the drug description or directions for use. The new Ascend-IP fields allow you to optionally specify a "dosage" value, dosage "unit of measure", a "per volume" value and a volume "unit of measure". Defaults for these values can be entered in the drug's formulary record and edited at order entry time as needed.

Examples might include:

Gentamicin syringe: [80][MG] / [ 2][ML]

Erythromycin tab: [250][MG] / [EACH][TAB]

Users can continue to use drug descriptions that imbed dosage information as they have in the past (e.g., GENTAMYCIN 80MG INJ").

With this new capability, if you edit the ingredient "dosage" in the order, the program automatically recalculates the "volume" and inventory "quantity" per dose values that are proportionally related. If the user edits the "volume" or "quantity" fields, the "dosage" and other related fields are automatically recalculated.

This new feature makes it easier to manage variations in order dosage/volume that are common with many medications. Ascend-IP will soon preferentially use these fields for "dosage checking" at order entry time.

Price update program keeps hospital prices current

Hann's On Software — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Ascend-IP can now re-price medications in Ascend-IP's drug database based on any number of user-defined formulas. This feature will mostly be used in situations where: the prices in the Ascend database are to be used for patient billing, rather than the hospital system's prices. the facility wants to recalculate patient prices after changes in medication cost/AWP have occurred. the facility wants to recalculate patient prices after changes in pricing formulas have occurred. After using the "Price update" program to recalculate patient prices in the Ascend database, you can export a "price update" file for your hospital to use in updating their system with the same prices.

"Order Changes" tracking added to Ascend-IP

Hann's On Software — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Hann's On Software, Inc. has added "Order change" history tracking to the latest version of Ascend-IP.

With this optional feature turned on, each time a user edits an order, a record of the change is made. The new "order history" button on the order's detail screen will provide a detailed history of all changes that users have made to this order.

This new feature supplements a previous Ascend-IP feature which allows you to designate which order fields can be edited, and which ones should result in the automatic creation of a new order. Fields that are allowed to be edited will have any edits documented in the "order history" log.

For example, if the defaults are set to allow users to edit the order 'stop date' field, the "order history" button could show you "who changed the order's 'stop date', when this change was made, and what value the 'stop date' field contained before it was changed"!

www.hosinc.com is a new, quicker website

Hann's On Software — Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT

Hann's On Software is pleased to announce that you can now reach our web site at www.hosinc.com. All Hann's On Software email accounts also use this new name (e.g., sales@hosinc.com).

Our web site and email can still be accessed under the previous name (e.g., www.lttextile.com; sales@lttextile.com). However, the new one is easier to remember and easier to type.

Our corporate logo, advertising, and etc. have also been updated to reflect our new "hosinc" identity.

Hann's On Software and Pyxis Develop New Interface

Hann's On Software — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

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Hann's On Software (HOS) and Pyxis developed an interface between the HOS inpatient pharmacy program, Ascend-IP, and Pyxis Visual Med to provide advanced medical technology to help reduce medication errors and improve patient safety. Ascend-IP and Pyxis Visual Med are now able to support better clinical care and reduce health care costs.

Pyxis Visual Med is a modular Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system that integrates physician and nursing clinical decision-making with data maintained in the electronic patient record.

Ascend-IP receives legible prescriptions and dosage calculations that are based on patient specific information from Pyxis Visual Med. This will help to improve communication between physicians, nurses and pharmacy, reduce medication errors and prevent adverse drug event (ADEs) at the point of prescription. In addition, Pyxis Visual Med reviews all MD prescriptions and can suggest alternate courses of therapy as needed.

As well as interfacing with Pyxis Visual Med, Ascend-IP can interface with ADT, Financial, Laboratory, CPOE, Automated dispensing systems, and more. For a more complete list of vendors Ascend-IP interfaces with and for more information on other HOS products please contact our sales and marketing department at x300.

Hann's On Software provides software to healthcare facilities and enables pharmacists, physicians and nurses to order, distribute, and administer medications to their patients in a manner that promotes optimal safety, efficiency and cost effectiveness. Hann's On Software provides Ascend-IP (for inpatient/hospital facilities), Ascend-HI (for home infusion/home care/outpatient businesses), and the Ascend Interface Engine (for communicating with other healthcare software vendors).

Hann's On Software — Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

Hann's On Software introduces a new, modern, user-friendly web-site for thier custmers. The new web-site design was developed by Hann's On Software's own Michal Cook and Dajin Huang. The new web-site is easier to navigate through and provides customers w/ a personal sign in page that details account information, current license information, tech-support help Visit this page frequently to learn about products updates and download the latest software. Users should check this site at least once a month for the most current drug and pricing updates. The developers at Hann's On Software have designed a new, modern, user-friendly web-site for our customers.